Matt W. Ransom

thumb|Matt W. Ransom Matthew Whitaker Ransom (October 8, 1826 – October 8, 1904) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1872 and 1895. Quotes Look at the mighty Mississippi the Father of Waters—it rises in the nameless snows of North America—runs through twenty-three degrees of latitude, all our own soil, and washes the sides of ten young, flourishing, and powerful States; its tributaries drain the rains that fall in sight of the Atlantic and meet the streams that flow into the Pacific upon the summit of the Rocky Mountains—its broad tides bear on their buoyant bosom the clothing of half of the world, and the fertile valleys, which spread out from its ample banks are capable of producing food for the population of the whole earth for a thousand years to come. Address to the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the U of NC, Chapel Hill (June 4, 1856); Address Delivered before the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the U of NC (Raleigh, NC: "Carolina Cultivator" Office, 1856), p. 14 External links Category:Confederate military leaders Category:Members of the United States Senate Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians Category:Lawyers from the United States Category:People from North Carolina Category:1826 births Category:1904 deaths